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of the Helmsdale river. It stands to a height
of about 24' and appears to be as described
in Cast. & Dom. Arch. [Castellated & Domestic Architecture].
From the castle I went to the manse and
called on Mr. Scott whom I found enthusiastic.
He is possessed of much information con:
:cerning the cairns &c. of Kildonan
which I must get him to put on record.
He told me that Mr. Rutherford had found
a hoard of Elizabethan coins in one near
Kildonan - this is an experience similar to
that of Dr. [Doctor] Bryce in Islay. The men who
hid the coins were taking advantage of
the superstitious dread with which the
natives regarded the cairns and had
safe places of deposit for their money.
He conducted me to the house of Mr. Fraser
a villa named Cnoc Chaisteal - due N [North] of
the W. [West] lighthouse at the end of the harbour
at an altitude of about ___ above it. The
house is on the site of a broch and
in digging the foundations there were
recovered, a steatite cup of the usual
type [Sketch inserted] a stone lamp, a saddle
quern of granite (an oval stone 1'4" long x 9" wide)
and a portion of one or more rotary querns and a

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